Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Senate Hearings
In the fall of 1991, the nomination of Clarence Thomas as an associate justice of the Supreme Court became the most controversial nomination in all of Americ...
Read more
It was during the Senate confirmation hearings in October 1991, for United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas that Anita Hill (born 1956) became famous. She came forward with sexual harassme...
Read more
Back then, she was either a charlatan or a heroine, depending which side you took in the epic, gut-wrenching showdown that was the Clarence Thomas confirmation battle.Sixteen years later, Anita Hil...
Read more
Anita Hill, whose sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas nearly derailed his Supreme Court nomination 16 years ago, said Tuesday she stood by her account of his behavior, disputing T...
Read more
Today is Sunday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2007. There are 85 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 7, 1765, the Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grie...
Read more
Breaking his 16-year public silence on his bitter confirmation hearings, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says Anita Hill was a mediocre employee who was used by political opponents to make cl...
Read more
Today is Thursday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2007. There are 81 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 11, 1776, the naval Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain took place ...
Read more
Moving quickly to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, White House officials are considering five names that "have kind of emerged" as possible candidates to take over the beleaguered Justice...
Read more
The Supreme Court is set to begin a term that could lead to enhanced rights for terrorism detainees, a ruling against part of a child pornography law and shorter prison terms for crack cocaine deal...
Read more
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a 15-cent price tag stuck to his Yale law degree, blaming the school's affirmative action policies in the 1970s for his difficulty finding a job after...
Read more
In days, the calendar will turn to July, a month that will mark the eighth anniversary of the one decision that, it is only becoming more apparent, has defined the course of George W. Bush’s ...
Read more
Shortly before 4 o'clock on a crisp April afternoon, James Piereson, the executive director of the John M. Olin Foundation, sat in the foundation's sparse conference room in midtown, looking like a...
Read more